Hello, fellow readers. Hope you enjoy my first story/collab story with the Keyblade Guardian's which takes place as a side story in his The Light Guardians story
Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts. Kingdom Hearts belongs to Square Enix
The Keyblade Graveyard. A sign and a reminder of the greed in which all keybearers alike fought for the sacred light which ended towards the original World destruction from the ashes of a great war known as the Keyblade War. The scarred battlefield-turned graveyard where the war waged is now littered with thousands upon thousands of dead keyblades where keybearers fell prey to whom they use to considered comrades in arms or even friends. The badlands also reflected on the terrible effects and results of the dangerous greed and lust that plague this perhaps once-beautiful world with the sides of mountains carved by what could be noticed as blast marks of magic, the shifting landscape, which carved locations such as the Fissure, a ravine in-between or the Seat of War, the background area of the graveyard.
Like a mirage, a mysterious keyblade wielder, donned bluish-green, gold and silver armor, holding a keyblade walks down the dusty road ahead of him, wandering like an aimless ghost. As the dust looms over the horizon, his image suddenly glitch and split, changing into the form of an armored Sora with his Kingdom Key in hand as ghostly words in bluish-green appeared around him
Savior
Keyblade
Hero
The scene switches into Destiny Islands, with Sora, Riku, and Kairi spending their last time with their friends, Tidus, Selphie and Wakka before they left for Radiant Garden. It quickly flickered and changed into a dark screen with words once again appearing with a silver glow around it.
What is a Keyblade?
Saves
Destroys
It shifts once again to a world that resembled the World That Never Was with notable differences including that it was in complete ruins and actual darkness ran through the sky instead of night. Sitting on top of what look like a ruin version of the Memory Skyscraper was a boy of an unknown age with his arm rested against his bent right leg with exact same keyblade from the graveyard underneath the palm of his left hand. He wore a black vest with white accents underneath a black short jacket with the hood over his head covering half his face and wore blue baggy pants and black shoes over his pants and feet. As the view zoomed to his face, he slowly raised his head and his right eye was glowing yellow with an ominous glare on his face.
A futile Light
An endless Darkness
A broken Heart
The scene once again shifts back to the graveyard, this time, with the mysterious keyblader instead of Sora. As he reaches the crossroads, three keyblade's of a unique design were standing alone in the center of the graveyard like they've been there forever. As he approaches them, the presence of two other keyblade wielders approaching him was noticed.
A ruined home
In the ruins of the Memory Skyscraper look-alike, thousands of heartless, from the common Shadow to the Darksides and their subspecies started manifesting out of the ground with the intent of killing the hooded Keyblade Wielder.
A tragic past
Two different keybearers appeared from the west and east. The left was a girl, wearing a fusion of the Black Coat and her Keyblade armor, was approaching the first keyblader, and the right was a certain anthropomorphic rabbit wearing blue, gray and silver flying down using his ears as propellers like a helicopter towards the surface also approaching him. As they came closer, the male keyblader reaches for the middle keyblade with his left hand.
A fallen family
The heartless started climbing the sides of the ruined building, hoping to reach their target. In response, he gritted his teeth, stands up on a ledge of a ruined skyscraper screen and jumps off, keyblade in hand.
"Can one truly heal another's heart?"
As the other two took the second and third keyblades, something off screen caught all three keybladers attention.
"Darkness will prevail and Light Expire."
On another world, a obscured photo that was laying in a random field of grass, which flew away as a gust of wind blew it away
"Hey, maybe taking about the book will cheer you up."
"Not a chance"
"Book..."
The hooded keyblade wielder readies himself and also summoned another keyblade with metal wing shapes as it's teeth in his left hand.
"A Lost Page..."
The keyblader swung his two keyblades at the approaching Heartless, slicing down his dark attackers.
"There's something missing from our Book of Prophecies."
More heartless started spawning from the edge of the tower. The view then zoomed to the face of a spawning Neoshadow, eyes glowing maliciously.
"Are you implying that the one in possession of the missing page is the Traitor?"
The spawning heartless jumped upwards off the edge of the building, in order to gain the upper hand over the hooded swordsman.
"There's darkness at work that's for sure."
"But I don't believe there is a traitor among us."
In response, the keyblader flips off the building and threw his left keyblade like a boomerang, flying clockwise while slicing the incoming heartless.
"It doesn't necessary point to one of us, does it?"
The hooded warrior proceeded in cutting down the remaining heartless that were spared from the spinning keyblade.
"The missing page, tells of a traitor in our midst."
The spinning keyblade came around and back towards the keyblader before he performed a large duel firaga attack with both weapons no in hand to the heartless surrounding the base of the tower itself.
"Even though there is a traitor, act normal and keep focus."
"Trust no one but yourself."
Images of all of Sora's, and the Light Guardians past adventures including the destruction of Destiny Islands and the Land of Departure towards the battles in the Keyblade Graveyard.
"Why..."
"Why did it have to come to this..."
The Keyblade Wielder flips through the air off the side of the tower and landed in a battle position, left keyblade in a reversed form, and his other keyblade held out.
"KINGDOM HEARTS CHI:
"It's time...
From a distance, a hooded stranger was approaching the 3 knights. The heat obscured his image, thus making it impossible to get a clear view of his face, but underneath his hood, he was smiling maliciously towards them, his left eye glowing yellow.
"to return home..."
In a field of grass, a book, which few would recognize as the Book of Prophecies, was laying against the bark of maple tree, surrounded by dandelions. A gust of wind caused the book's cover to flip open, revealing the pages within, ending with a page with the drawings of a crown, a cloak with the eye darkness and a chi symbol with a sword in between it.
X-KNIGHTS
Keyblade Graveyard (Blank Point)
Time: Unknown (possible about 1½ months before the Light Guardians were formed)
On a casual but desolate day, in the midst of a barren wasteland, lays the Keyblade Graveyard. It is a resting place for all the Keyblade wielders, regardless of light or darkness, who died in the battle known as the Keyblade War, which depicts these fallen warriors crafting the first keyblades in image of the original weapon primary known as the χ-Blade and waging total war against each other for control over the light of Kingdom Hearts. In the aftermath of the war, however, hundreds or even thousands of keyblade wielders lost their lives at the end of the battle with only their keyblades acting as gravestones and as last remnants or memories of them. Suddenly the wind blew violently upon the sound of footsteps from a hooded figure wearing a black coat with a difference in detail such as a large crimson/magenta fleur-di-lis on the back of the coat and crimson flame designs on his sleeves, shoulders, and coattails. The hood concealed most of his face, thus revealing only the lower half of his face.
The sound of his footsteps walking forward was the only other sound heard across the deserted graveyard, along with the wind howling through the dead keyblades. As he approaches and stops at the crossroad, he looks around the lifeless horizon, analyzing how much this forsaken place has decayed over the life. He merely frowns upon the sight of the dead keyblades along with one of his eyes - his right - turning golden yellow and glowing under the darkness of his hood.
"On that land shall darkness prevails and light expire..." he said with a dark voice.
The howling of the wind grew louder mostly from the twisters as the mysterious figure raised his arm at the position of the sun and twist it around 30 degrees to the right like he was grasping it. His expression continued to turn into a more serious frown as his thoughts became his words.
"It's disappointing...that this once beautiful world has now been rendered to nothing more but a desolate wasteland because of the greed for control over something pure. And it seems now the past intends to repent itself once again," he said as he referenced to a group of five keyblade wielders that you should all know o.
His expression then turned to a smirk and his hand's grasping gesture changed into a finger gun gesture using his right three fingers as he aimed it towards the position of the sun. The gust of wind then became more violent as a small dark aura engulfed the figure while his smirk changed into a malicious grin.
"Get strong, warriors of light! You've got competition at your doorstep!"
August 24, 2024 (the same day Sora and Riku met Yuffie's ninja/thief guild)
In the streets of Radiant Garden, a certain brown haired keyblade wielder named Sora along with his friend Riku were running away from their ninja friend Yuffie. Why? Because of a certain white-haired someone deliberately talking behind her back at her thief guild a.k.a ninja hideout. So far they've been trying to get some distance away from the raging ninja girl but it seems they just can't shake her off. Unknown to them, someone was watching them from afar. From a rooftop, a boy, eighteen years old, was observing the current surrounding of Radiant Garden, but mostly on the chase. He had duel-colored hair, the main being white and the secondary being blush-green. He wore a black and white Final Fantasy style jacket, with some buttons and a matching white hood, a black and white checkered scarf, headphones and an eyepatch around his head and his right eye. He also wore gray baggy pants with white knee guards and black and bluish-green straps, along with black shoes with white soles.
When Sora turned his head around to check if Yuffie was still chasing them, he caught a short glimpse of the keyblade wielder turning around and leaving his position. He stopped for a split second and thought that he saw was either an illusion or an actual person.
What the hell?" he thought. "Was that a person I just saw?"
"SORA! GET BACK HERE!"
"!"
Unfortunately, he didn't have enough time to think about too much of the subject at hand as he heard a certain someone shouting his name out loud and had to run for his life as he suddenly realizes that Yuffie was still chasing after him and Riku.
Meanwhile, the armored keyblade wielder was walking towards his already summoned keyblade glider as he saw enough of what happened today.
"The kid's strong," he said, "Plus he's got powerful allies from the different worlds he and his friends saved. However, he and his friends are not a ready for the upcoming battles that are about to commence soon."
The armored keyblader walks into the cockpit of his glider once more and opened up a Lane Between with the same white angel keyblade that was used in the city.
"Leaving so soon, Tyr?"
The keyblade wielder, now identified as Tyr turned his head around towards the direction of an anthropomorphic rabbit wearing similar clothing to that of Mickey Mouse with the exception that they were a blue and gray color and that there were rabbit emblems all over them. His name was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, keyblade wielder and King of Wasteland.
"Yeah, I was only here to see how much stronger Sora has become after his battle against Xehanort in the Keyblade Graveyard..."
"And?"
"So far I have mixed opinions about his strength and abilities," Tyr replied. "Also...I'm not even gonna ask how you got here so quickly..."
Oswald folded his arms and spoke cockily, "Ha! You know what my motto is, don't muck with luck, kid."
"Why the hell did I even bother saying that..." Tyr thought to himself.
The two watch silently as they looked around the horizon of Radiant Garden, observing the daily lives of the residents and the rebuilt towns. It felt like something you would see in a painting except the feels of the town and the landscape was completely realistic. Oswald was looking at the horizon from where he's standing towards the sun while Tyr was more interested in watching Sora and Riku trying to outrun their pursuer.
"Curious?"
"Likewise."
"It never ceases to amaze me that the savior of the universe is basically to an oblivious, harem, cute girl magnet," Oswald said.
Tyr just stares indescribably at the toon rabbit, as if he saw a heartless or a nobody spazzing out for no apparent reason whatsoever.
"What? It's true."
"I know, but...the way you said it just sounds too damn awkward."
"You got a better way of saying it?" Tyr shrugs in agreement.
More screaming was heard overhead as Yuffie angry yells were starting to turn literal as she threw her ninja star to try and knock Sora and Riku off their feet. Oswald was slightly amused by this while Tyr expression remained blank and unchanged. After a few minutes, he turned his friend with a particular question in mind.
"Let me guess," the rabbit raised his finger before Tyr said anything. "You need help with a machine that allows you to access a virtual reality game without the use of the actual console for the game itself," Oswald guessed...correctly. "So you need a fourth mechanic to help build it up from scratch.
"You rubbed yourself with your feet before you came here, didn't you?" Tyr frowned.
"Eh, better to luck more than luck out," the Wasteland King proudly smiled upon implying this. He then took his right leg out by the shin and started rubbing himself with it.
"So, you'll help us with this?"
"Hey, you could've asked before. Besides, I'm not busy with anything else so why not?"
As the sun set's over the horizon, Tyr and Oswald took the chance to take out a blue marble out of their pockets and held it towards the direction of the sun, the rays of it's light beaming off of the surface of the ball itself. Eventually, the blue marble turned into a small orb of light.
"What happens now?" Oswald asked Tyr, which he responded with a raise of his eyebrow.
"You know, with the Dark Hunters and Maleficent's army on the rise and all. What do you think we should do know?
Tyr merely shrugged indicating that he's clueless on what to do next. But the outcome was pretty obvious for what going to happen tomorrow.
As the evening went down to night time and everyone' almost in bed, both decided just go their separate ways home. Tyr shot a beam from his keyblade and opened up a lane in between and transformed his weapon into one of its three vehicle forms which was a skyboard/waveboard similar to Sora's and Ventus's gilder. Tyr gave a nod to Oswald, and launches and flies his glider into the sky and flew through the Lane Between before it closed.
As he left, Oswald leaned his back against a random wall, put his hands behind his head and sighed. It has been a few months since their group was created and so far everything was going swell. However, he couldn't stop and ask himself the same question all over again: What should they do next? So far, they've been keeping tabs on Maleficent's armies, her forces and the rapid increase in heartless activities along with trying to track down the Dark Hunters and figure out their next move. But for the time being, it was best to rest for the day and ponder about such concerning topics later.
"Look how much we've improved," Oswald said softly with a smile on his face and looking upon the buildings of Radiant Garden like it was his home away from home. "I wonder where this path will take us next."
Oswald turned his attention towards the crescent moon of Radiant Garden, as if it was the junction point for thousands of worlds and beyond.
"Heh, χ-Knights...," Oswald thought. "that's not a bad name at all…"
So, what do you think? I'll be uploading more stories soon. Otherwise, submit a review if you like this chapter or some mistakes you want to point out. I'll be uploading a picture of Tyr's keyblade armor and the rest of the X-Knights later.